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Staff W of the English Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations: att'd=attested, OE=Old English, NHG=New High German, Du.=Dutch
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see Forshortenings.
| English | Word Class | Anglish | ||
| Attested | Not attested | |||
| wager | vb | stake | back | |
| wagon (Dutch) | n | wain | - | |
| walrus | n | - | seawhale | |
| war (Germanic) | n |
- |
wye (<OE wig) winlock (<gewinnan+làc) hild, unfrith | |
| warrior | n |
fighter |
wyeman (<OE wigman) rink | |
| waste1 | n | loss, wear and tear | unthriftiness | |
| waste2 | n | wilderness heath wild | untamed land | |
| waste | n | chaff, dross, offal wear and tear | - | |
| wasteland | n | barren, dryland, heath, no-man's-land | - | |
| watch cap | n | beanie | knit hat, woolly hat | |
| watermelon | n | - | sweetmarrow | |
| wait | vb | bide, holdback | - | |
| waive | vb | yield, forsake, forgo | - | |
| wet nurese | n | suckster (cf Du. zoogster) | - | |
| whiskers | n | beard, chin-hair | wongbeard | |
| whiskey | n | - | lifewater | |
| woodpecker | n | - | hickle (<OE hicel, hicol) | |
| woolstapler | n | - | woolseller | |
| wreckage | n | wreck | -y n | |